Instead invest in a special asbestos encapsulate product.
Cover asbestess sheets by woodburner.
A fire resistant wall shield is necessary to eliminate the threat of fire.
We wondered if this 60 s era vinyl might contain asbestos and had it tested the backing does contain asbestos.
The best wall shields help to radiate the heat from the stove into the room.
Many people will say that using soapy water plastic wrap and duct tape can be used as a cover for asbestos pipe but it s just not worth the chance that this system fails.
Under the carpet adhered directly to the beautiful 1 1 2 original oak flooring someone laid sheet vinyl.
Wood burning stoves with cook top surfaces may contain asbestos in their pads and trivets.
My clients had a pipe burst causing damage to a wall ceiling and floor in their living room.
It is conventional to install wall shields over fire resistant wall spacers.
These are applied like paint and don t cost a lot of money.
Also a wood stove may have millboard cement sheet or asbestos paper and tape for insulating and fireproofing.
It may also be found in insulating material around it.
I am working on a repair project.
Corrugated asbestos cement sheets were applied in the same way that corrugated iron was applied either nailed to wooden strips bolted to the purlins or clipped directly to the purlins by clips of hoop iron or wire.
Currently the room is carpeted.
They were available in standard sheets twenty seven and a half inches wide and in lengths of four five six seven eight and ten feet.
Older stoves may also have asbestos in door gaskets.